This refreshingly easy citrus salad options grapefruit and oranges topped with a tangy French dressing and recent mint. A gentle and wholesome aspect dish!

Right here’s a refreshingly easy recipe that’s simply begging to leap in your desk: citrus salad! It stars all the gorgeous, vibrant citrus: tangy grapefruit, navel oranges, and candy blood oranges. They’re drizzled with a zingy dressing, then topped crushed pistachios and recent mint. It’s so beautiful you could’t assist however eat it! This wholesome aspect dish is ideal with salmon or to offset the richness of pasta.

How you can make a citrus salad?

This citrus salad is a little bit completely different than what you would possibly anticipate from the title: it’s obtained no salad greens! Inexperienced salads are what Alex and I most frequently use to decorate our meals. However there are such a lot of salads with out greens: assume potato salad, pasta salad, and bean salad. Right here, citrus salad is a wide range of citrus fruits organized on a plate. You should use any mixture of citrus fruits that you just like! Right here’s what we used:

• Navel oranges
• Blood oranges if you’ll find them! The combination of colours and flavors is gorgeous.
• Grapefruit
• French dressing: White wine vinegar, olive oil, Dijon, and maple (optionally available if you happen to’re limiting sugar)

The garnish steps it up!

This citrus salad is extra of an idea than a recipe. As we talked about, you should use any citrus you want! When you’ve drizzled the French dressing excessive, including the garnishes actually takes it up a notch. Once more, it’s extremely customizable. Right here’s what we used:

• Contemporary mint. Mint is ideal with citrus! Not solely does it look stunning, it’s a pleasant colour distinction. Different good herbs to pair: recent thyme or basil.
• Thinly sliced shallots. Shallots are like a child purple onion: they’re a lot milder in taste. They give the impression of being pretty thinly sliced into rings, with a light-weight purple colour.
• Finely crushed pistachios. When you’ve got them readily available, crushed pistachios seem like vivid inexperienced confetti. It’s not required, nevertheless it provides a pleasant contact.

How you can minimize off a citrus peel

The one piece of approach on this citrus salad is slicing off the orange peel. Reducing off the peel (as an alternative of eradicating it by hand) removes all of the robust pith and makes for a clean-looking salad. It’s really step one in our How you can Lower an Orange methodology, which can also be a French methodology referred to as slicing it into supremes. You’ll use the identical methodology for oranges and grapefruits right here. Right here’s how one can minimize off a citrus peel for this salad:

• Step 1: Slice off the ends. Use a big chef’s knife to slice off each ends of the orange. Ensure you’ve minimize via the entire pith and may see a number of the orange flesh.
• Step 2: Lower off the peel. Angle your knife and comply with the spherical form of the orange to take away the peel. Watch out to not minimize an excessive amount of of the orange flesh away.

What to serve with this citrus salad!

This citrus salad is so easy and refreshing, the vibe goes with virtually something you can think about (actually)! It’s obtained a little bit of a Mediterranean-style or Italian vibe, so it pairs properly with meals in that type. It’s a beautiful aspect for lasagna or salmon. Listed here are a few of our favourite concepts for pairing:

Change it up: go Latin-style!

If you wish to change the vibe of this citrus salad to work with Mexican or Latin-style flavors like as a aspect for enchiladas or tacos, right here’s what to do:

• Use chopped cilantro as an alternative of mint.
• Use 1 tablespoon finely chopped purple onion as an alternative of shallot.
• Use lime juice as an alternative of white wine vinegar.

This citrus salad recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free, and gluten-free.

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